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jps

In article ,
says...
wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
jps wrote:

"The Photographer" is an image in your (evidently narrow) mind. In my
mind, the photographer uses whatever equipment he freaking well pleases
for the purpose at hand.

What matters is what's captured in the frame, not what it's captured by.

What's the problem with sacrificing quality for convenience?
If you want convenience instead of quality, use a 110 Instamatic.
What an idiotic statement. I'm sure there's plenty of pinhole
photographers who can make your efforts look like amateur snapshots.

The best camera equipment no more makes a photographer than a fast car
makes a driver or a big boat makes a boater.

jps

Speaking of "pinhole" photographers...
While tramping around Mindanao
between '77-'79 an old Yashica TL Super with the stock 50m lens with a
2x adaptor served me verrrry well. the light meter quit, and after
being dropped so many times, the viewfinder was actually like looking
though an angular sight. but I got used to that.

I haven't used it in many years, but I keep toying with the idea of
digging it back out.
Seeing I can't get good quality flash cubes for my instamatics
anymore... ?:

I remember the old Yashica Mat twin lens cameras, less expensive
knock-offs of the Rolleiflex. Nice cameras (both of them).

I was always impressed by their looks and engineering but I was even
more impressed by what I was able to capture. I borrowed a friend's
Rollei when in my twenties and loved it. Ended up buying a whole Rollei
kit with telephoto attachment for $400 from a retired wedding
photographer. Lots of fun to play with, great images. That pushed me
to reassemble my darkroom to do b&w. Very satisfying to dodge and burn
as if Ansel and watch the results develop. Lot of info on well-exposed
piece of 120 film.

jps